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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.
Laurence Sterne
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Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.
Mae West
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Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.
Og Mandino
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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
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Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
G. K. Chesterton
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
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There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.
Erica Jong
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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund Freud
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You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
Les Brown
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Life, like all other games, becomes fun when one realizes that it's just a game.
Nerijus Stasiulis
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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.
P. L. Debevoise
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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
Thomas p Kempis
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That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
Rabindranath Tagore
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For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
George Orwell
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Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Charles Swindoll
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The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
Eric Hoffer
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Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
Edwin Markham
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Emily Bronte
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Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.
Og Mandino
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Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.
Ralph Harper
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
Christian Nevell Bovee
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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
Og Mandino
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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
Og Mandino
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
Joseph De Maistre
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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The old pool shooter had won many a game in his life. But now it was time to hang up the cue. When he did, all the other cues came crashing to the floor. 'Sorry,' he said with a smile.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Charles De Gaulle
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Hellen Keller
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
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I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.
Ellen Stugis Hooper
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They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Thomas Brackett Reed
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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
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Nostalgia is living life in the past lane.
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If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
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One life
a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
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Such is life.
Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol
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Life is unfair.
John F. Kennedy
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Life is a risk.
Diane Von Furstenberg
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Life is warfare.
Seneca
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
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Life Is A Challenge
Meet It Life Is A Song
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My life is a battle.
Voltaire
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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
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